DICT - DICT Clients

DICT Clients

A dictd server can be used from Telnet. For example, to connect to the DICT server on localhost, on a Unix system one can normally type:

and then enter the command "help" to see the available commands. The standard dictd package also provides a "dict" command for command-line use.

More sophisticated DICT clients include:

• cURL
• dictc (DICT Client), client for Windows written in Delphi.
• dict.org's own client (part of the dictd package)
• dictem, for the Emacs text editor
• Dictionary, an application included with Mac OS X. Online dictionaries can be accessed by setting it as the helper for 'dict://' URI schemes.
• Fantasdic
• Gnome-dictionary, comes with GNOME
• GNU dico's own client (part of the dico package)
• Kdict, comes with KDE
• KTranslator, KDE dictionary
• MaemoDict, for the Nokia 770
• Mozdev.org's 'dict', a Firefox/Mozilla extension
• OKDict, an OpenOffice.org extension
• OmniDictionary, for Mac OS X
• sdcv
• StarDict
• ZopeDictDB for Zope from Pentila
• GoldenDict

There are also programs that read the DICT file format directly. For example, S60Dict, is a dictionary program for Symbian Series 60 that uses DICT dictionaries. Additionally, some DICT clients, such as Fantasdic, are also capable of reading the DICT format directly.